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After my goof regarding Knight Rider's premiere date, here is the ACTUAL premiere date schedule from LA.
NOTE: Due to the NFL players' strike, all slots slated for NFL games and pre-game shows are marked as 'TBA' (To Be Announced).
2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 For Our Times
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Special: "Abraham Rattner" - American Jewish painter, shown in observance of the Jewish High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur).
8:00 Sunday Morning
9:30 TBA
10:00 TBA
1:00 USC Football: at Oklahoma (taped)
3:30 Last of the Wild
4:00 Interface With Truman Jacques
4:30 Newsmakers
5:00 Face the Nation - Guest: Gene Upshaw, president of the NFL Players' Association, discussing the strike which lasted Sept. 21 - Nov. 16.
5:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place (final SP)
8:30 Gloria (P) - Sally Struthers reprises her role as Archie Bunker's daughter.
9:00 Jeffersons (SP)
9:30 Alice (SP)
10:00 Trapper John, M.D. (SP)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Sunday Sports Final
11:45 Rockford Files
12:45 Name of the Game
4 KNBC
6:30 Serendipity
7:00 That's Cat
7:30 Whitney & the Robot
8:00 Special: "Dr. Abraham Joshue Heschel Revisited" - In commemoration of the Jewish High Holy Days.
8:30 Odyssey
9:00 Meet the Press - Guest: Nicholas Veliotes, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Asian Affairs.
9:30 TBA
10:00 TBA
1:00 TBA
4:00 Sunday
5:30 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
6:00 News 4 LA
6:30 News Conference 4 LA - Guest: California Governor Jerry Brown, then a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate (lost to Pete Wilson, later himself California Governor).
7:00 CHiPs - Last NBC airing with Larry Wilcox as Officer Jon Baker, though not his final epsiode overall. In the season premiere two weeks later, he was replaced by Tom Reilly as Ponch's new partner Officer Bobby "Hot Dog" Nelson.
8:00 Knight Rider (P; 2 hrs.) - Sole Sunday airing in its debut season. Aired Fridays in the season's remainder, moved to Sundays for its second and third seasons, and back to Fridays in its fourth and final season.
10:00 NBC Special: "TV's Censored Bloopers No. 3" - Dick Clark, Lynn Redgrave, Tony Randall; eventually paved the way for "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes".
11:00 News 4 LA
11:45 Movie: "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All" (1982, animated) (Different NBC stations aired on various nights around this date, starting August 21. Originally produced and slated to air three years earlier.)
1:00 An Evening at the Imrov
1:45 At One With...
5 KTLA
6:00 Music and the Spoken Word
6:30 Robert Schuller
7:00 Little Rascals
8:00 Popeye & Friends
10:00 Family Film Festival: "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946) - Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield
NOON Three Stooges
1:00 Munsters
1:30 F-Troop
2:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
3:00 Family Film Festival: "Now and Forever" (1934) - Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
6:00 Movie for a Sunday Evening: "Aunt Mary" (1979) - Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Dolph Sweet
8:00 Entertainment This Week
9:00 Wild Kingdom
9:30 World of Survival
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
10:45 Sunday Sports Page
11:00 Wild Kingdom
11:30 Pacesetters
MIDNIGHT 700 Club
7 KABC
6:00 Campus Profile: Viewpoint on Nutrition
6:30 Growing Years
7:00 It Is Written
7:30 Daybreak LA
8:00 Personal Dimensions
8:30 People 7
9:00 Best of AM Los Angeles
10:00 Best of Kids Are People Too - (Jan. 4, 1981) Guests: Cathy Lee Crosby, Ben Vereen, Irene Cara, Sean O'Neill & Scott Butler (junior tennis champions), Elizabeth Haggerty (divorce counselor)
11:00 This Week With David Brinkley - Guests: Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Lebanese President Amine Gemayel
NOON MLB Baseball: Baltimore Orioles vs. Milwaukee Brewers or Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals (Time and teams subject to change; both games started at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, so this timeslot seems inconsistent, as does the listing for "David Brinkley".)
2:30 Directions
3:00 Special: "The Youngest Victim"
4:00 At the Movies (P) - Siskel & Ebert, formerly of PBS's "Sneak Previews", debut in their popular syndicated movie review show. Reviews: "Pink Floyd: The Wall", "Class of 1984", "Lola"
4:30 ABC Sportsbeat
5:00 Greatest Sports Legends
5:30 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 People's Court
7:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not! (P) - Jack Palance
8:00 Matt Houston (P, 2 hrs.)
10:00 ABC Special: "2nd Edition of Whatever Became Of..." - Gavin MacLeod, Morgan Fairchild
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC News - Tom Jarriel
11:45 Movie: "The Games" (1970) - Ryan O'Neal, Michael Crawford, Charles Aznavour, Sam Elliott
9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 Voyage
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 Lloyd John Ogilvie
8:30 Meeting Time at Calvary
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Herald of Truth
10:30 Robert Schuller
11:30 Terry Cole-Whittaker
NOON Search
12:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
1:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Louise Mandrell, R. C. Bannon, Charlie Walker, Ben Peters, Ramona Jones (wife of series regular Grandpa Jones, whom he performs with)
2:00 Movie: "Ten Little Indians" (1974) - Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough
4:00 Movie: "The Raven" (1963) - Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Jack Nicholson
6:00 Special: "Around the World in '82" - Musical tour of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. Host: Glen Campbell; Guests: Victor Borge, Nell Carter, Janie Fricke, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Stafford, Ricky Skaggs
8:00 It Is Written
8:30 The World Tomorrow
9:00 Dr. Cho
9:30 Jack Van Impe
10:00 The Word for Today
10:30 Lone Ranger
11:00 World Vision: "Africa's Weeping"
11 KTTV
5:45 Christopher Closeup
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Day of Discovery
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Ever-Increasing Faith
9:30 The World Tomorrow
10:00 Rex Humbard
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Church in the Home
NOON Movie: "Rio Rita" (1942) - Abbott & Costello
2:00 Movie: "The Underground Man" (1974) - Peter Graves, Jack Klugman, Sharon Farrell, Celeste Holm, Jim Hutton
4:00 Movie: "Cruise Into Terror" (1978) - Ray Milland, Stella Stevens, Hugh O'Brian
6:00 Movie: "Courage of Lassie" (1946) - Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan
8:00 Movie: "Cruise Into Terror" (R)
10:00 LA 11 News
10:30 Sports Wrapup
11:00 Jerry Falwell
MIDNIGHT Outer Limits
1:00 Public Affairs
13 KCOP
6:00 Romper Room (Hour-long weekend edition; aired Saturdays too)
7:00 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:00 Sunday Morning Funnies (cartoons)
11:00 Movie: "Pony Express" (1953) - Charlton Heston, Forrest Tucker, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling
1:00 Adam-12 (x2)
2:00 Movie for a Sunday Afternoon: "The Will Rogers Story" (1952) - Will Rogers Jr. (as his father), Jane Wyman (as Betty Rogers)
4:00 Weekend Movie: "Cash McCall" (1960) - James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E. G. Marshall
6:00 Sunday Film Festival: "Mozambique" (1965) - Steve Cochran (died shortly after the film's release), Hildegard Knef, Paul Hubschmid, Vivi Bach
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "The Wild Prairie" (1975) - Larry Jones (narrator)
10:00 World Network News
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:30 The Rookies
28 KCET (PBS)
7:00 Yoga For Health
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Electric Company (x2)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Lawmakers
10:30 The Open Mind
11:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Testament of Youth" (Part 3 of 5)
NOON The Paper Chase (1978-79 CBS revival of 1973 film starring John Houseman reprising his Oscar-winning role. Revived a second time on Showtime the following April for three more seasons.)
1:00 Special: "Baltimore Symphony and Leon Fleisher in Concert" - Host: Tony Randall; Inaugural concert at the opening of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on September 16.
3:00 California Congressional Report
3:30 California Week in Review
4:00 Wall $treet Week
4:30 Washington Week in Review
5:00 Firing Line
6:00 Special: "Where the River Enters the Sea"
6:30 Special: "Mt. St. Helens: Why Did They Die?" - Investigation on the question of responsibility for the 60 fatalities from the volcano's May 18, 1980 eruption.
7:00 Arthur Rubinstein: "Israel" - Visit to a special forest named for him near Jerusalem, attending a peformance at the Jerusalem Music Centre (he retired from performing in 1976), and touring the city with Mayor Teddy Kollek. Rubinstein died three months after this broadcast.
8:00 Nova: "Living Machines"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Testament of Youth" (Part 4 of 5)
10:00 Kennedy Center Tonight: "A Salute to Duke (Ellington)" - Guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Max Roach, Billy Taylor, Joe Williams
11:00 Sneak Previews - New hosts: Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons (started the week of Sept. 13); Reviews: "Tempest", "Tex"
11:30 TV Quarterbacks
NOTE: Due to the NFL players' strike, all slots slated for NFL games and pre-game shows are marked as 'TBA' (To Be Announced).
2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 For Our Times
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Special: "Abraham Rattner" - American Jewish painter, shown in observance of the Jewish High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur).
8:00 Sunday Morning
9:30 TBA
10:00 TBA
1:00 USC Football: at Oklahoma (taped)
3:30 Last of the Wild
4:00 Interface With Truman Jacques
4:30 Newsmakers
5:00 Face the Nation - Guest: Gene Upshaw, president of the NFL Players' Association, discussing the strike which lasted Sept. 21 - Nov. 16.
5:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place (final SP)
8:30 Gloria (P) - Sally Struthers reprises her role as Archie Bunker's daughter.
9:00 Jeffersons (SP)
9:30 Alice (SP)
10:00 Trapper John, M.D. (SP)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Sunday Sports Final
11:45 Rockford Files
12:45 Name of the Game
4 KNBC
6:30 Serendipity
7:00 That's Cat
7:30 Whitney & the Robot
8:00 Special: "Dr. Abraham Joshue Heschel Revisited" - In commemoration of the Jewish High Holy Days.
8:30 Odyssey
9:00 Meet the Press - Guest: Nicholas Veliotes, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Asian Affairs.
9:30 TBA
10:00 TBA
1:00 TBA
4:00 Sunday
5:30 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
6:00 News 4 LA
6:30 News Conference 4 LA - Guest: California Governor Jerry Brown, then a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate (lost to Pete Wilson, later himself California Governor).
7:00 CHiPs - Last NBC airing with Larry Wilcox as Officer Jon Baker, though not his final epsiode overall. In the season premiere two weeks later, he was replaced by Tom Reilly as Ponch's new partner Officer Bobby "Hot Dog" Nelson.
8:00 Knight Rider (P; 2 hrs.) - Sole Sunday airing in its debut season. Aired Fridays in the season's remainder, moved to Sundays for its second and third seasons, and back to Fridays in its fourth and final season.
10:00 NBC Special: "TV's Censored Bloopers No. 3" - Dick Clark, Lynn Redgrave, Tony Randall; eventually paved the way for "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes".
11:00 News 4 LA
11:45 Movie: "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All" (1982, animated) (Different NBC stations aired on various nights around this date, starting August 21. Originally produced and slated to air three years earlier.)
1:00 An Evening at the Imrov
1:45 At One With...
5 KTLA
6:00 Music and the Spoken Word
6:30 Robert Schuller
7:00 Little Rascals
8:00 Popeye & Friends
10:00 Family Film Festival: "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946) - Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield
NOON Three Stooges
1:00 Munsters
1:30 F-Troop
2:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
3:00 Family Film Festival: "Now and Forever" (1934) - Shirley Temple, Gary Cooper
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
6:00 Movie for a Sunday Evening: "Aunt Mary" (1979) - Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Dolph Sweet
8:00 Entertainment This Week
9:00 Wild Kingdom
9:30 World of Survival
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
10:45 Sunday Sports Page
11:00 Wild Kingdom
11:30 Pacesetters
MIDNIGHT 700 Club
7 KABC
6:00 Campus Profile: Viewpoint on Nutrition
6:30 Growing Years
7:00 It Is Written
7:30 Daybreak LA
8:00 Personal Dimensions
8:30 People 7
9:00 Best of AM Los Angeles
10:00 Best of Kids Are People Too - (Jan. 4, 1981) Guests: Cathy Lee Crosby, Ben Vereen, Irene Cara, Sean O'Neill & Scott Butler (junior tennis champions), Elizabeth Haggerty (divorce counselor)
11:00 This Week With David Brinkley - Guests: Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Lebanese President Amine Gemayel
NOON MLB Baseball: Baltimore Orioles vs. Milwaukee Brewers or Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals (Time and teams subject to change; both games started at 11:00 AM Pacific Time, so this timeslot seems inconsistent, as does the listing for "David Brinkley".)
2:30 Directions
3:00 Special: "The Youngest Victim"
4:00 At the Movies (P) - Siskel & Ebert, formerly of PBS's "Sneak Previews", debut in their popular syndicated movie review show. Reviews: "Pink Floyd: The Wall", "Class of 1984", "Lola"
4:30 ABC Sportsbeat
5:00 Greatest Sports Legends
5:30 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 People's Court
7:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not! (P) - Jack Palance
8:00 Matt Houston (P, 2 hrs.)
10:00 ABC Special: "2nd Edition of Whatever Became Of..." - Gavin MacLeod, Morgan Fairchild
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC News - Tom Jarriel
11:45 Movie: "The Games" (1970) - Ryan O'Neal, Michael Crawford, Charles Aznavour, Sam Elliott
9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 Voyage
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 Lloyd John Ogilvie
8:30 Meeting Time at Calvary
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Herald of Truth
10:30 Robert Schuller
11:30 Terry Cole-Whittaker
NOON Search
12:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
1:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Louise Mandrell, R. C. Bannon, Charlie Walker, Ben Peters, Ramona Jones (wife of series regular Grandpa Jones, whom he performs with)
2:00 Movie: "Ten Little Indians" (1974) - Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough
4:00 Movie: "The Raven" (1963) - Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Jack Nicholson
6:00 Special: "Around the World in '82" - Musical tour of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. Host: Glen Campbell; Guests: Victor Borge, Nell Carter, Janie Fricke, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Stafford, Ricky Skaggs
8:00 It Is Written
8:30 The World Tomorrow
9:00 Dr. Cho
9:30 Jack Van Impe
10:00 The Word for Today
10:30 Lone Ranger
11:00 World Vision: "Africa's Weeping"
11 KTTV
5:45 Christopher Closeup
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Day of Discovery
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Ever-Increasing Faith
9:30 The World Tomorrow
10:00 Rex Humbard
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Church in the Home
NOON Movie: "Rio Rita" (1942) - Abbott & Costello
2:00 Movie: "The Underground Man" (1974) - Peter Graves, Jack Klugman, Sharon Farrell, Celeste Holm, Jim Hutton
4:00 Movie: "Cruise Into Terror" (1978) - Ray Milland, Stella Stevens, Hugh O'Brian
6:00 Movie: "Courage of Lassie" (1946) - Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan
8:00 Movie: "Cruise Into Terror" (R)
10:00 LA 11 News
10:30 Sports Wrapup
11:00 Jerry Falwell
MIDNIGHT Outer Limits
1:00 Public Affairs
13 KCOP
6:00 Romper Room (Hour-long weekend edition; aired Saturdays too)
7:00 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:00 Sunday Morning Funnies (cartoons)
11:00 Movie: "Pony Express" (1953) - Charlton Heston, Forrest Tucker, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling
1:00 Adam-12 (x2)
2:00 Movie for a Sunday Afternoon: "The Will Rogers Story" (1952) - Will Rogers Jr. (as his father), Jane Wyman (as Betty Rogers)
4:00 Weekend Movie: "Cash McCall" (1960) - James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E. G. Marshall
6:00 Sunday Film Festival: "Mozambique" (1965) - Steve Cochran (died shortly after the film's release), Hildegard Knef, Paul Hubschmid, Vivi Bach
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "The Wild Prairie" (1975) - Larry Jones (narrator)
10:00 World Network News
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:30 The Rookies
28 KCET (PBS)
7:00 Yoga For Health
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Electric Company (x2)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Lawmakers
10:30 The Open Mind
11:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Testament of Youth" (Part 3 of 5)
NOON The Paper Chase (1978-79 CBS revival of 1973 film starring John Houseman reprising his Oscar-winning role. Revived a second time on Showtime the following April for three more seasons.)
1:00 Special: "Baltimore Symphony and Leon Fleisher in Concert" - Host: Tony Randall; Inaugural concert at the opening of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on September 16.
3:00 California Congressional Report
3:30 California Week in Review
4:00 Wall $treet Week
4:30 Washington Week in Review
5:00 Firing Line
6:00 Special: "Where the River Enters the Sea"
6:30 Special: "Mt. St. Helens: Why Did They Die?" - Investigation on the question of responsibility for the 60 fatalities from the volcano's May 18, 1980 eruption.
7:00 Arthur Rubinstein: "Israel" - Visit to a special forest named for him near Jerusalem, attending a peformance at the Jerusalem Music Centre (he retired from performing in 1976), and touring the city with Mayor Teddy Kollek. Rubinstein died three months after this broadcast.
8:00 Nova: "Living Machines"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Testament of Youth" (Part 4 of 5)
10:00 Kennedy Center Tonight: "A Salute to Duke (Ellington)" - Guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Max Roach, Billy Taylor, Joe Williams
11:00 Sneak Previews - New hosts: Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons (started the week of Sept. 13); Reviews: "Tempest", "Tex"
11:30 TV Quarterbacks
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